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The Jazz FM Awards will return in 2018 at Shorditch Town Hall London on 30 April, International Jazz Day. Last year's ceremony was the national jazz station's highest profile to-date, attracting a wealth of wide media attention, as well as some controversy, thanks to the presence of Mick Jagger, R...

Jazz Jantar is one of the less well-known Polish festivals, but it has been running in the northern port of Gdańsk for two decades, and is housed by Klub Zak, an arts centre that has roots stretching back 60 years. It also spans 10 days, presenting mostly two (but sometimes one, or three) sets eac...

Being an American jazz singer in St. Petersburg is a full-time job, with diplomatic requirements. Kurt Elling (above) has barely touched down before President Putin asks to meet. A four-hour wait later, Chicago hip royalty is introduced to Russia's pseudo-democratic Tsar for three minutes. Ambassa...

The widely acclaimed Miles Davis Bootleg Series issues its sixth instalment with Miles Davis & John Coltrane – The Final Tour: The Bootleg Series Vol.6, a 4CD to be released by Columbia/Legacy on 23 March 2018. It includes five of the best-recorded European concerts from the important 1960 per...

Award-winning Dutch trumpeter Eric Vloeimans (above) is set to play Pizza Express Jazz Club, Dean Street, London on Wednesday 13 December in advance of a more extensive visit to the UK and Ireland in 2018 as part of the Going Dutch project. For this performance he will be joined by fellow Dutch mu...

This 14th edition of the nine-day Jazztopad festival in Wroclaw, Poland meets the high standards set by its predecessors and invites healthy debate on key issues in arts programming. Above all, the question of how a touring international artist adapts to an unfamiliar environment is thr...

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The Jazz FM Awards will return in 2018 at Shorditch Town Hall London on 30 April, International Jazz Day. Last year's ceremony was the national jazz station's highest profile to-date, attracting a wealth of wide media attention, as well as some controversy, thanks to the presence of Mick Jagger, R...

Jazz Jantar is one of the less well-known Polish festivals, but it has been running in the northern port of Gdańsk for two decades, and is housed by Klub Zak, an arts centre that has roots stretching back 60 years. It also spans 10 days, presenting mostly two (but sometimes one, or three) sets eac...

Being an American jazz singer in St. Petersburg is a full-time job, with diplomatic requirements. Kurt Elling (above) has barely touched down before President Putin asks to meet. A four-hour wait later, Chicago hip royalty is introduced to Russia's pseudo-democratic Tsar for three minutes. Ambassa...

The widely acclaimed Miles Davis Bootleg Series issues its sixth instalment with Miles Davis & John Coltrane – The Final Tour: The Bootleg Series Vol.6, a 4CD to be released by Columbia/Legacy on 23 March 2018. It includes five of the best-recorded European concerts from the important 1960 per...

Award-winning Dutch trumpeter Eric Vloeimans (above) is set to play Pizza Express Jazz Club, Dean Street, London on Wednesday 13 December in advance of a more extensive visit to the UK and Ireland in 2018 as part of the Going Dutch project. For this performance he will be joined by fellow Dutch mu...

This 14th edition of the nine-day Jazztopad festival in Wroclaw, Poland meets the high standards set by its predecessors and invites healthy debate on key issues in arts programming. Above all, the question of how a touring international artist adapts to an unfamiliar environment is thr...

A crucial but frequently overlooked aspect of Duke Ellington's creative life was his engagement with literature. From Shakespeare to Steinbeck, Ellington's love of the written word inspired much of his...

Long-form classical-indebted compositions are back in style. Stuart Nicholson takes a close look at the evolution of extended symphonic orchestrations in jazz, from the creations of Gershwin to Ellington to...